Musings

A viburnum. In bloom.

No malicious cyber tools here.

Apparently They may attack the energy grid with malware. They is the GRU, and perhaps additional groups.

Posted at 10:16 PM | Comments Off on Smell the flowers

There were two guys who were doing whatever this was planted on a tripod for, but they weren’t paying attention to this old lady walking down the sidewalk, so I was able to sneak a pic of their technology. This’s called a prism, and I didn’t know Pentax makes them, but that’s because I haven’t used a total station in…what?…two decades? Three?

Fact: I trained back in the Jurassic age (meaning before laser total stations like the guys had), rather uncommonly, on a theodolite and not a transit. I soon learned the latter, too. Both involved a lot of careful twisting with both hands, very systematically.

Posted at 8:27 PM | Comments Off on I’m leveling with you

Seems like a good name for this brilliant rainbowed sun-ray….

Posted at 9:28 PM | Comments Off on Digital sundog?

A lovely viburnum corymb. I read that Ötzi the Chalcolithic Iceman had arrows with shafts of viburnum and dogwood.

Posted at 9:24 PM | Comments Off on Minutia

It looks like daylight, but it’s a 3-second night shot, on a clear evening with a bright, bright moon. The magic of photography….

Posted at 9:17 PM | Comments Off on Full moon

Omicron is the dominant strain of COVID now in the US. This is what highly transmissible statistics look like.

And my sense of science indicates more variants are coming…not just variants, but variants we civilians will be talking about.

Yikes.

Posted at 7:30 PM | Comments Off on Oh, my

Apologies for the posting delay. I had to update my phone. Then ten minutes after the most-of-an-hour that that took, my watch alerted to needing its own update. And now, almost overwhelmingly, I can’t tell any difference from The Old Ways.

Posted at 8:54 PM | Comments Off on Updated world-let

Just before the hot season arrived, we got new HVAC units for upstairs and down. It was time.

I always think we shouldn’t let the autumn leaves accumulate on them…but they do. And they somehow slip through the grating much more frequently than I think they should be able to. I do pick off the ones that stop atop the grating, and then look at those wily ones and…well, worry a bit.

Posted at 8:54 PM | Comments Off on All shiny; almost

My that’s some gorgeous moonlight!

And I do believe I see clues to how my phone-cam does its low-light magic…given the the green dot-cluster to the left, and the red highlighting on the foreground plants.

Still, what a fabulous moon!

Posted at 8:46 PM | Comments Off on Lookee eastward

Seems to me that if there’s a sidewalk solar panel for buried infrastructure, we should be able to use sidewalk solar for other uses, no? Plenty of sidewalks other there, ya’know.

Found this little cherry tomato science project…kinda late in the season, but they should ripen…. After all, where’s there no frost, tomatoes are perennials. [Going and going….]

Posted at 8:39 PM | Comments Off on Sidewalk news